hey a.netters!! What routes do you think US will/can use their new E-190's on? Can they open up new transcons/midcons from PIT,CLT.PHL,FLL? Like maybe PHL-PDX,OAK,YVR? PIT-SAN,SFO,SJU,CUN with increased frequencies? FLL-LAX,LAS,BDL,BWI,POS? Tell me what you guys think and give me input

I doubt that they will be running transcons with the Embraers. They're just not set up for that kind of long leg. But they can and will displace 737s and Airbuses on some midcons resulting in greater Airbus capacity for transcon service.

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Quoting 1MillionFlyer (Reply 3):But they are set up for that kind of leg, why do you thing that they are not?

Details and Facts please.

Want a fact? Here's a fact: the EMB-190 doesn't have the range for true transcon flights. PHL-SFO is 2,521 miles. An EMB-190AR trying to do that route would run out of gas somewhere east of Carson City.

More fundamentally, any plane, taken to the extreme edges of its payload-range envelope, gets out of its economical envelope. It makes much more sense to put these planes on midcons like PHL-DFW, CLT-YYZ and PHX-MEM, that are now served by a mix of mainline jets and RJs. Those mainline jets will be freed up to run transcons and the RJs will go back to routes they're suited for.

They'll also open up new midcon routes from both West and East coasts - think PHX-BNA, PIT-DEN.

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MD90fan, I would really not be shocked to see some of this sort of service open up, for one big reason:

All the stations are in place.

US now has equipment, ground staff and infrastructure in all these West Coast stations, and vice versa for HP. One of the most expensive and risky parts of starting new service is getting the ground side going - gate leases, new employee hires, handling equipment, etc. Well, now US/HP combined have ground staff in lots of stations across the country - if HP wants to fly PHX-BNA, all they have to do is send the plane and the US ground staff will handle it. Same for a US flight CLT-AUS.

Connecting the dots is, IMO, a matter of time.

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My suggestion would be to keep these out of the Florida market. That would
IMO be a waste of the aircraft's economical benefits. Although I could see
it used on flights to MIA since those fares seem to be much higher than the
ones to TPA,MCO,PBI,JAX,and FLL. (maybe DCA-MIA/ PIT-MIA).

Seems like a perfect plane for markets like OKC, AUS, SAT, ICT...that currently are RJ-heavy. A lot of potential passengers are lost in these markets purely out of the desire to fly in a more comfortable aircraft.

PDX-PHL, by the way, will definitely be on an A319, if anything else it will be an A320 if the market warrants. There is just too much demand and LOTS of freight going in that direction. The PDX-PHX runs on the other hand may see some E190 action. PDX-LAS may be even better.

I would love to see some increased service here in MKE, they dropped the PIT route a while ago and it would bbe nice if that returned, loads must be good here for US since the recently upgraded some of their exprexx flights to mainline a319's

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